This is a YouTube video titled “How much should I charge as a ghostwriter” created in January 2025. The content is a monologue or presentation providing guidance on pricing strategies for ghostwriters, including recommended rates for creating educational email courses and monthly retainer services. It aims to help freelance writers overcome limiting beliefs about charging premium prices.
How much should you charge as a ghostwriter? Well, here's how much we tell students in our Premium Ghostwriting Academy to charge for assets like, say, building an educational email course for a client. We tell our students to charge $5,000. There is absolutely no reason why you can't sell a valuable revenue critical asset like this for five grand. For context, when we built an educational email course for our first writing program, ship 30 for 30, the business literally doubled overnight. Why? Because EECs have higher opt in rates, which means more people on our email list. And EECs also educate prospects. And more educated prospects means people are more likely to buy. Still, no matter how many times we tell new students that they can charge five grand to create this asset for clients, we see a lot of them struggle with this faulty belief and thinking that they can't. So that's what we're here for, right? To help you overcome that faulty belief because it's holding you back. And then for assets on a monthly retainer, like writing a weekly newsletter for a client or creating social content on X or LinkedIn, we encourage students to charge at least least $3,000 per month. Now, again, this might sound like a lot. Most freelance writers on upwork can't fathom charging more than $50 or $100 per hour. But one of the biggest things that we cover in our Premium Ghostwriting Academy is packaging and pricing, where we teach you how to structure your offer in a way where clients have no problem paying you a premium. So either three grand per month for recurring services or five grand for standalone assets. And notice, it only takes a couple clients for you to be at 10 grand per month.